How do I convert String into Date object

[MrPink]

BTW, here is the Python version I'm using.
Will this make a difference with the solutions you guys provided?

Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Jun 24 2010, 21:47:49)
[GCC 4.2.1 (Apple Inc. build 5646)] on darwin

Also, what editor do you guys use?
There are so many to chose from.

On Aug 13, 4:11 pm, Rafael Durán Castañeda
<rafadurancastan... at gmail.com> wrote:
> You can use datetime objects:
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>  >>> dt1 = datetime.datetime.strptime('07/27/2011',"%m/%d/%Y")
>  >>> dt2 =datetime.datetime.strptime('07/28/2011',"%m/%d/%Y")
>  >>> dt1 == dt2
> False
>  >>> dt1 > dt2
> False
>  >>> dt1 < dt2
> True
>  >>> dt1 - dt2
> datetime.timedelta(-1)
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> On 13/08/11 21:26, MrPink wrote:
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> > I have file of records delimited by spaces.
> > I need to import the date string and convert them into date datatypes.
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> > '07/27/2011' 'Event 1 Description'
> > '07/28/2011' 'Event 2 Description'
> > '07/29/2011' 'Event 3 Description'
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> > I just discovered that my oDate is not an object, but a structure and
> > not a date datatype.
> > I'm stumped.  Is there a way to convert a string into a date datatype
> > for comparisons, equality, etc?
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> > Thanks,
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> > On Aug 13, 3:14 pm, MrPink<tdsimp... at gmail.com>  wrote:
> >> Is this the correct way to convert a String into a Date?
> >> I only have dates and no time.
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> >> import time, datetime
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> >> oDate = time.strptime('07/27/2011', '%m/%d/%Y')
> >> print oDate
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> >> Thanks,